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Rethinking Local and Regional Development: Implications for Radical Political Development in Europe (2007)
Journal Article
Hadjimichalis, C., & Hudson, R. (2007). Rethinking Local and Regional Development: Implications for Radical Political Development in Europe. European Urban and Regional Studies, 14(2), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776407076290

This article focuses upon the practicalities of what people actually do and can do in the present era of neo-liberal globalization to build more progressive local and regional development strategies in Europe. To do so, we introduce three examples of... Read More about Rethinking Local and Regional Development: Implications for Radical Political Development in Europe.

Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat' (2007)
Journal Article
Colls, R. (2007). Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat'. Geoforum, 38(2), 353-365. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.004

In this article I describe the processes through which fat bodies are materialised. I contextualise the article within the recent call to rematerialise social and cultural geography and the wider medical, social and political discrimination that obes... Read More about Materialising bodily matter: Intra-action and the embodiment of 'Fat'.

'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational (2007)
Journal Article
Harrison, P. (2007). 'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational. Environment and Planning A, 39(3), 590-608. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3825

As the ideas of the relational and relationality become part of the everyday conceptual make-up of human geography, in this paper I seek to recall the insistent and incessant importance of the nonrelational. In dialogue with nonrepresentational theor... Read More about 'How shall I say it...?' Relating the nonrelational.

Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry (2007)
Journal Article
Bek, D., McEwan, C., & Bek, K. (2007). Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry. Environment and Planning A, 39(2), 301-319. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3831

Newly emerging ethical trade practices in the South African wine industry are examined as a way of engaging with debates about the ability of alternative trade approaches to facilitate meaningful opportunities for socioeconomic development in the glo... Read More about Ethical trading and socioeconomic transformation: critical reflections on the South African wine industry.

Embodying responsibility: children's health and supermarket initiatives (2007)
Journal Article
Colls, R., & Evans, B. (2007). Embodying responsibility: children's health and supermarket initiatives. Environment and Planning A, 40(3), 615-631. https://doi.org/10.1068/a3935

In this paper we interrogate the ways in which supermarkets ‘place’ responsibility for children’s ‘healthy’ eating with parents and/or children, as set within the contemporary British public health concern with the prevalence of childhood obesity. We... Read More about Embodying responsibility: children's health and supermarket initiatives.

Modes of governing municipal waste (2007)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Watson, M., & Hudson, R. (2007). Modes of governing municipal waste. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), 2733-2753. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38269

From recent debates on governance and governmentality, two key analytical imperatives arise: the need to engage simultaneously with the structures and processes of governing, and the need to recognise the plurality and multiplicity of governing sites... Read More about Modes of governing municipal waste.

Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action (2007)
Book Chapter
Crang, M. (2007). Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action. In R. Hassan, & R. Purser (Eds.), 24/7 : time and temporality in the network society (62-88). Stanford University Press

In this essay I want to begin with some of the grand claims and narratives of changing temporality heralded via information technology. However, I also want to write into these the way changes in time are bound up with changes in space, and that spat... Read More about Speed= distance/time : chronotopographies of action.